As last month’s busy CV Show (NEC, Birmingham) drew to a close, the many thousands of visitors must have come away with at least two abiding impressions. On the one hand, the commercial vehicle...
Stumbling across really impressive workshops isn’t anyone’s everyday experience. Brian Tinham reports on something rather special in Springburn
Bodyshop Equipment
While most of us breathed a sigh of relief at the chancellor’s decision to continue the fuel duty freeze in last month’s Budget, others are disappointed. They argue that a 3p per litre cut would have...
Truck Efficiency
Driving change is often achieved by judicious use of carrots and sticks, with ‘judicious’ being the operative word. Offer bags of carrots and you get there fast, but at a cost. Wield the stick too...
Bus & Coach
We’re just a few short weeks into 2016, yet the CV Show (26–28 April, NEC) marketing machine appears to be in top gear, with visitor registration already live on the website. Early, maybe. But, with...
Continuing Professional Development
Welcome to 2016: the year in which irtec (the IRTE’s technician licensing scheme) looks set to lead training agendas. It may have been a long time coming, but, with fleets the size of Sainsbury’s now...
Continuing Professional Development
With the unsurprising news that the chancellor yet again failed to cut fuel duty last month, operators must now content themselves with two thoughts. Fuel is still cheap, currently nudging pre-2009...
Alternative Fuels
Christmas might not be such a merry affair if warnings from the Road Haulage Association over empty shelves – due to truck driver shortages and failure of government to act – turn out to be accurate....
Alternative Fuels
With the VW scandal dominating the headlines, as we go to press transport engineers are wondering why one of the planet’s giants of engineering could have allowed software to cheat emissions tests....
Corporate Liability
Shaun Stephenson, fleet director at food service supply chain giant Bidvest Logistics, assumes the presidency of the SOE (the umbrella organisation for IRTE – Institute of Road Transport Engineers) at...
Continuing Professional Development
While Wimbledon and the Tories’ first Budget since 1996 are already weeks ago, some of the latter’s detail should be giving us pause for thought. And not only the obvious faults.
Continuing Professional Development
Apparently, truck manufacturers should be leading the charge to road haulage ‘servitization’ – an Americanism meaning nothing more fancy than adding complementary services to products. That gem was...
Telematics